Yellow Fever New come buckra, He get sick, He tak fever, He be die, He be die, & etc. In 1799, the traveler Robert Renny recalled being greeted on the shore of Jamaica by a canoe full of slave women sarcastically chanting.

Victims New York City in 1878 Victims of the fever awaiting burial at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis in 1878 Plague-stricken—waiting for the frost in 1878

More victims The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Cause Flavivirus genus Aedes aegypti mosquito

Transmission Monkey Humans Mosquito

Symptoms Fever Muscle Pain Headache Shivers Black Vomit

Regions Affected AfricaSouth America

Treatment Dehydration and fever Oral rehydration salts and paracetamol Bacterial infection antibioti c Serious ill patients Intensive care

Prevention Vaccination Vigilant Surveillance Mosquito Control

Vaccination A single dose of vaccine provides protection for 10 years and probably for life.

References The Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins and Anne Coxe Toogood Viruses, plagues, and history by Michael B. A. Oldstone Yellow Fever & public health in the new south by John H. Ellis Epidemics and history: disease, power and imperialism by Sheldon Watts A Special Gratitude to Dr. Scarcella Presented By: Kwang-Sug Lee